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imthenachoman

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Is there any kind of GUI scripting/extension capability for XFCE?

Is there any kind of scripting/extension capability for XFCE where I can quickly make a pop up GUI that has buttons that would do some action like run a command?

On KDE you can write kwin scripts to do things like show a GUI.

I'm wondering if there is something similar in XFCE?

ToZ

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Re: Is there any kind of GUI scripting/extension capability for XFCE?

You can use zenity or yad. They should be in your distro's repositories.

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imthenachoman

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Re: Is there any kind of GUI scripting/extension capability for XFCE?

You can use zenity or yad. They should be in your distro's repositories.

Which of those is more slim/trim? Zenity looks like a Gnome thing? That means it would install a bunch of Gnome stuff, right?

If it matters, I am on Debian.

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Re: Is there any kind of GUI scripting/extension capability for XFCE?

The look similar:

- Zenity Bookworm package: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/zenity
- Yad Bookwork package: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/yad

Yad has more functionality. You can search these forms for "yad" or "zenity" to see some user-created scripts.

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imthenachoman

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Re: Is there any kind of GUI scripting/extension capability for XFCE?

Great. Thank you!